Cottage on Opposite Side of Road and Approximately 70 Metres North West of Pound Farmhouse Pound Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.

Cottage on Opposite Side of Road and Approximately 70 Metres North West of Pound Farmhouse Pound Farm

WRENN ID
dreaming-gable-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
TL 718 233
Coordinates
51.88258, 0.49589
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a cottage located approximately 70 meters northwest of Pound Farmhouse, dating from the 16th or 17th century, with later alterations and additions. The cottage is timber framed and plastered, sitting on a brick plinth. It features a red plain tiled roof with a double catslide dormer and has two red brick chimney stacks. The building is one storey with attics and has a three-window range of 20th-century small paned casements, along with a French door to the left. There is temporary covering in the center. Inside, there is a back-to-back inglenook fireplace with a chamfered mantel beam and chamfered bridging joists.

Local climate

Cottage on Opposite Side of Road and Approximately 70 Metres North West of Pound Farmhouse Pound Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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